[Baylisa] tomcat and other monitoring?

[Guy B. Purcell]

Zenoss  <http://www.zenoss.com/> does both pretty well.  Also, there's a Nagios widget that will store the polling results in RRDs, IIRC--may even tie into the UI for effectively built-in graphs.

-Guy


On Aug 14, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Ray Wong wrote:

> Hey all, not like there's a lot of list traffic/discussions these
> days, but iirc that's actually one of the accepted uses for the list,
> so I thought I'd try it out again...
> 
> Just wondering if other folks are still having to brew up
> monitoring/graphing solutions. detecting outages and failures seems a
> given, but there doesn't seem to be much going on WRT graphing trends
> and such... In the case of monitoring tomcat, I found a lone thread on
> the cacti forums, which generate some vaguely useful graphs, but the
> solution is all wrapped up in a rather obfuscating XML-template system
> that doesn't seem to lend itself well to certain customizations such
> as running multiple instances, etc. Anyone found a better solution, or
> figure out enough jmxproxy to come up with more modular, basic scripts
> to create something a little more flexible and extensible? There seem
> to be newer graphing options (graphite, carbon, etc), but doesn't seem
> to be much in the way of actually talking to data sources still.
> 
> Anyone? Seems like we all used to deal with a lot of this as
> sysadmins, and maybe my googlefu is not strong, but seems like most of
> the efforts are all years out of date now.
> 
> -R>
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